Allan Hancock College Public Saftey Complex

The new public safety complex will address the classroom and primary laboratory needs of all public safety programs at Allan Hancock College. In addition, it will have shared administrative spaces, locker rooms, apparatus/vehicle storage, and support spaces. The project will also incorporate skill training facilities which they currently do not have but are essential to the two programs. These skill training facilities include a burn tower, a shooting range, a scenario village, a fitness room, and more adequate outdoor training grounds. A new 1.3-mile Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) and high speed course will also be provided for training which is essential to the program.

Distric Music Hall at El Dorado High School

The District Music Hall will be located on El Dorado High School campus in the City of Yorba Linda. The new 600-seat performance facility will serve as the main concert venue for the District and will also accommodate a variety of theatre and drama productions. The Music Hall will also be the new home for the award-winning El Dorado High School band program. Accessory areas included stage preparatory areas, dressing/make-up rooms, delivery and loading access and storage spaces. The new Music Hall is a part of a larger project that will include a Practice Gymnasium and an outdoor pedestrian plaza; this new complex will act as a link to the existing campus and an entry to the community. The design will include an exterior canopy structure serving as an outdoor extension to the lobby while being the prominent feature of the design that draws visitors to the site. The building's exterior is wrapped with a series of screen panels reflective of the essence of the musical performance within.

Oakland Downtown Educational Complex

The new Downtown Educational Complex includes construction of a K-5 Elementary School, a program-based High School, a combined Child Development Center, a TV Station, and a Community Health Clinic located on several parcels of District land in the Lake Merritt "Channel Area" of Downtown Oakland. The Complex is designed to be a CHPS Certified Project, with the goal of achieving grid neutrality. The new Elementary School will accommodate 360 K-5 students in a two-story administration and classroom building along with a separate kindergarten wing. A Great Room serving as a cafeteria, gymnasium, and multi-use space with a stage will be shared by all schools. Adjoining the Great Room are the Health Clinic, TV studio, and the District IT Data Center. MetWest High School will accommodate 180 high school students in a two-story complex designed around a double-height "town hall" space. The Child Development Center will accommodate 168 students in seven classrooms with the licensing-required outdoor play area. Designated kindergarten play area, shared playfield, community edible garden, and on-grade parking round out the project. All three schools are integrated in one complex but each maintains its own identity with separate designated entryways. Each school has separate drop-off zones to ease the traffic during peak hours. The buildings are linked by a "learning walk" that passes through all the essential spaces which serves as an educational instrument for the students of different age groups.

Highlights

2011 CASH/AIACC Leroy F. Greene Design Award of Merit

Walton Special Center

Walton Special School rests on a 4.2-acre site adjacent to an existing elementary school and a high school. Walton Special School is mainly comprised of the original building featuring three large open classrooms with support spaces for the students and staff. The integrated programs include early infant care, preschool, elementary school and high school. Project scope consists of the renovation of the existing classroom building to include support space and change rooms as well as a variety of different maintenance rooms. The existing administration building will be modernized to include additional administration and clerical space as well as conference, nurse therapist and psychologist office space. There will also be new classrooms, parent rooms and private offices.

Orchard Hills K-8 School

The new comprehensive K-8 school is located on a 15-acre site within the new Irvine residential village of Orchard Hills. The K-8 school is master planned to house 1,200 students and contains 45 teaching stations with other facilities totaling 110,000 sq.ft. Aside from classrooms and laboratories, the program includes kindergarten with play areas, specialty classrooms, administration, library, multi-purpose/food services, and gymnasium, track and sport fields.